Governing Body

Welcome to our Governors section

 

Our team of Governors comprises a group of local people with a range of experience and expertise who are representatives of the local community. Many have a thorough working knowledge of the school and make a point of spending time in the classrooms with the children and staff. They attend training courses on all aspects of the curriculum and school management to ensure they have the necessary knowledge and skills to support the Head in the effective running of the school.

 

THE MAIN ROLES OF THE GOVERNING BODY ARE:

• To achieve a strategic view. To focus on helping the school’s strategy for improvement so that pupils learn most effectively and achieve the highest standards.

• To act as a critical friend. To provide the head teacher and staff with support, advice and information, drawing upon governors’ knowledge and experience. This is critical in the sense of the governing body’s responsibility for monitoring and evaluating the school’s effectiveness and as a friend because the governing body exists to promote the interests of the school and the wellbeing of the pupils.

• To ensure accountability. The governing body is responsible for ensuring good quality education in the school. The head teacher and staff report to the governing body on the school’s performance and the governing body has the right to discuss, question and refine proposals, whilst always respecting the professional roles of the head teacher and other staff and their responsibilities for the management of the school. In its turn the governing body answers for its actions, above all to the parents and the wider local community for the school’s overall performance.
   

  We feel that St Barnabas and St Paul’s CEPS is privileged to be such a caring, well-resourced school with a highly skilled and enthusiastic teaching and support staff that creates a stimulating and exciting learning environment. The atmosphere in the school and the enthusiasm with which the children approach their work, as well as the high quality of work achieved, makes us very proud of our school. We have the greatest confidence in recommending our school to you for your child, and hope that you will come to experience for yourself all the good things we have to offer.  The structure and remit of the Governing Body can be found below.

 

Foundation governors

Jamila Hounslow PCC – appointment 02.12.15 appointed by BDBE as a Foundation Governor. Chair of governors appointed 12.09.19.

Pecuniary interests: Governor at  St Wilfird's C of E Academy.

Heather Henderson – Appointed post September 2015 by governing body and Blackburn Diocese. She was nominated by PCC. Vice chair of governors appointed 12.09.19.

Pecuniary interest: Married to the Bishop of Blackburn. Heather is a governor at St Wilfrid's C of E Academy and St Matthew's C of E Primary School.

Links with curriculum committee.

Links with curriculum and admission committees.

Andrew Pratt – (LINK GOVERNOR) Appointed post 2013.

Pecuniary interest – Own Business: sports shop.

As a link governor, Andrew is the link between our school and the local authority.

 

Staff Governors - 2

Philip Morgan - (Seconded Executive Head)  

 

Joanna Duckworth - (Acting Deputy Head) Appointed in April 2015 by Teaching Staff

Pecuniary interest:Joanna's mother holds SATs booster classes with the Year 6 pupils.

Links with curriculum committee.

 

Parent Governors

Azin Ismael - Appointed March 2016 by nomination from parents.

Rizwana Patel - Appointed January 2017 by nomination from parents. 

 

 

Recently retired governors

 

Jehanaka Turk. March 2013 – November 2015. Retired due to work commitments

Mrs A Ashraf. Retired April 2015

Mr M Ashraf. Retired April 2015

Mr S Gardner. Retired April 2015

Mr G Whitehead. May 2014 – April 2015. Retired due to work and family commitments

Mr S McNally. Retired April 2016.

Mrs Carla Martini. Retired July 2019.

Rev. Jonathan P.Milton-Thompson. Retired August 2019.

Mrs Janet Prowse. Retired as chair of governors 12.09.19

Mrs Sharon Roscoe. Retired as vice chair 12.09.19

Governors Attendance 2017-2018

 

 

 

 

Governor attendance 2018-19

Governors Attendance 2019-2020